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The science of flor: what’s that growing on my wine?

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What is flor? It’s something that grows on the surface of wine: a film of yeasts. And it alters the

It’s Sauvignon Blanc day! Here’s a nice infographic from the Bragato Research Institute on the chemistry of Sauvignon Blanc: [Just

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Mouse taint (mousiness) is a wine fault that I’d not experienced until a few years ago. Now it seems to

There are faults you read about but you’ve never experienced. Here I experience ropiness for the first time, in a

In viticulture, a widely practiced form of leaf removal is hedging of the canopies, taking off the developing shoots at

Over the last 20 years (first vintage 2000), Eben Sadie has established himself as one of South Africa’s leading winegrowers.

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The PR agency working for Maison Joseph Drouhin recently send out some pictures of frost protection in their Chablis vineyard

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Anyone who’s ever tried to grow grape vines without spraying them will probably have come across powdery mildew. It’s the

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The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is a common feature around wineries at harvest. These tiny flies seem to get

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Pictured above: Vancouver harbour has a famous sulfur pile. It’s stored here after arriving as a by product of oil